TORONTO—Robert Hiller has stood tall as Canada’s ranks of organ tuners thinned, rebuilding and installing organs for customers from Nova Scotia to Inner Mongolia.
This provided steady income for 45 years, but now the order bank is nearly empty and he said he is in survival mode.
The new coronavirus represents an unprecedented threat to a professional whose unique services would usually be in high demand in the weeks leading to Easter.
Before the pandemic, the most disruptive threats an organ tuner encountered were squirrels...